When audio signals are detected by your computer's microphone, an analog (or continuous) electrical signal is generated. Computers work with digital data, so...there is a device the displays it, stores it on disk, mixes it, or does a multitude of other things. This hardware capability is usually built-in to a computer or is a part of a sound card while the program is usually something like a Windows' Sound Recorder, audacity, etc.
digital coommunication is a mode of communication where the information is encoded digitally as discrete signals & electronically transferred to the recipients. analog communication format is that in which information is transmitted by modulating continuous signal, such as sound wave.
Digitization, or digitizing, is the process of converting information into a digital format. This includes storing files onto a computer, processing music that was recorded in an analog format to digital, and even creating documents and emails and then sending them over the Internet.
Transcoding is the term for converting computer data from one format to another. Transcoding can be analog to analog or digital to digital conversion.
The conversion of analog video to a digital format, or vice-versa.
Analog to digital conversion done by the ADC's. It's digitization. ... Also referred to as video capture.
modem
analog to digital converter
digital imaging (using digital cameras and scanners), sound cards, and analog video-capturing devices sample, compress, and convert analog media into a series of 0s and 1s (digital) signals for processing by a computer
No, Pulse Code Modulation is a communication method used to carry digital data but is not part of any analog to digital conversion. PCM is often used to carry audio data as a digital stream and therefore is the encoding used as the signal is first converted to a digital format.
The conversion of letters, sounds, and images into electrical signals is called digital encoding. This process essentially translates analog data into a digital format that can be easily transmitted and processed by electronic devices.
The advantage of analog over digital or vice versa , is dependent on the input information type and / or signal amplitude where applicable , also on what the application is and other considerations like information / signal processing , storage , etc. The choice is decided by the advantages as per the requirements. As a rule the information carried by an analog signal is dependent on its instantaneous magnitude or position.Thus it is highly susecptible to corruption by extraneous noise sources which can affect the magnitude arbitrarily. On the other hand a digital signal typically carries information as changes in amplitude level between two ( or more ) arbitrarily predefined levels, arranged in a predetermined format and grouping ( more familiar as a code ). As long as the digital signal can be retrived without major loss in blocks of code , the original information can be mathematically retrived. Whenever the information and / or signal level is very small and / or in analog form , invariably some form of analog processing is required before any meaningful conversion to digital format or processing can be done. Now due to vast processing powers of digital circuits & computers , the advantage of analog is limited to very specialised requirements where the disadvantages of digital format would outweigh any other considertions. So for all purposes it would be invariably advantageous to use digital format and convert to analog whenever required. The only notable analog format which will always be required is for human sound & visual interface ( or for that matter other senses ) which the body perceives and processes only as analog signals , even the pseudo analog modes of Class D Audio Amplifiers , LCD Displays , Projection , Digital Printing etc. which operate in the Digital mode to simulate analog signal output. It may be noted that the Morse Code was essentially a digital format, while Semaphore ( uses Flag & Hand positions to convey information ) was an analog signal by virtue of hand position.
No, a S/PDIF is, by definition, a Sony / Phillips Digital Interconnect Format connector, and is always a digital signal. It is usually connected by an RCA cable, and can be carried by cable specified for analog use, but digital cable is better.